قثاء

Arabic

قِثَّاء

Etymology

  • Leonid Kogan and Jussi Aro list it as being Proto-Semitic (which already Zimmern suspected), cognate to Ge'ez ቍሳይ (ḳʷəsay), ቈስያ (ḳʷäsya, cucumber), Akkadian 𒄾 (qiššû, cucumber), Hebrew קשוא (qiššūʾ, Armenian cucumber), Classical Syriac ܩܰܛܽܘܬܳܐ (qaṭṭūtā, cucumber) (one explains the Syriac middle consonant as having developed */t//tˤ/ because of /q/).
  • It is a wanderwort found as Sumerian 𒄾 (ukuš2, cucumber) Ancient Greek σικύα (sikúa, bottle gourd), Ancient Greek σίκυος (síkuos), σικυός (sikuós), σίκυς (síkus, cucumber), Latin cucumis (cucumber), Old Armenian սեխ (sex, muskmelon), and possibly Proto-Slavic *tyky (pumpkin, gourd). Doublet of كُوسَا (kūsā, zucchini).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qiθ.θaːʔ/, /quθ.θaːʔ/

Noun

قِثَّاء or قُثَّاء • (qiṯṯāʔ or quṯṯāʔ) m (collective, singulative قِثَّاءَة f (qiṯṯāʔa) or قُثَّاءَة (quṯṯāʔa))

  1. Cucumis in general
  2. Armenian cucumber

Declension

Descendants

  • Egyptian Arabic: قتا (ʔatta, a long variety of cucumber)
  • Amharic: ቋሳ (ḳʷasa, cucumber)
  • Ge'ez: ቀታ (ḳäta, cucumber)

References

  • Aro, Jussi (1963) “Gemeinsemitische Ackerbauterminologie”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 113, pages 478–479
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 203
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “قثاء”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 530–535
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قثاء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1002
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 58
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